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ICONS AMONG US: JAZZ IN THE PRESENT TENSE •
Chapter 1 (4:00pm)
Paradigm Studio partners with DonQ® to present Icons Among Us: jazz in the present tense. The 4 part documentary film series examines the world of resonant jazz looking at today’s brightest talent.
A documentary film series that captures the essence of today's most inspirational, exciting and talented jazz artists. Jazz is undergoing changes of monumental magnitude and importance. Icons Among Us: jazz in the present tense, is a documentary film series that captures the metamorphosis of jazz by showcasing the words, music, and spirit of the artists that are paving the way for an unprecedented musical evolution.
Selected by American Film Institute's program 20/20 to represent The United States in a global cultural exchange sponsored by The President's Council on the Arts and Humanities, NEA, NEH and The Institute for Museum and Library Services. Starring John Medeski, Terence Blanchard, Dianne Reeves, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding, Robert Glasper, Bill Frisell, Matthew Shipp, Will Bernard, Marco Benevento, Anat Cohen and many more...
RICHARD SEARS GROUP feat. ALBERT "TOOTIE" HEATH (5:00pm)
Richard Sears (piano)
Tootie Heath (drums)
Patrick Wolff (saxophones)
Steven Lugerner (woodwinds)
JJ Kirkpatrick (trumpet)
Garret Lang (bass)
Pianist and composer Richard Sears grew up in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Northern California. In 2005, Richard received a scholarship to attend the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, where he studied with Shelly Berg, John Clayton, and Alan Pasqua. Richard has recorded and performed with a diverse array of artists including Joshua Redman, Tootie Heath, Dave Binney, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Azar Lawrence. In 2012 and 2013, Richard competed as one of five finalists in the International Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition.
Special guest is jazz legend Albert "Tootie" Heath. The younger brother of Percy and Jimmy Heath, Tootie Heath has long been a top hard bop-based drummer with an open mind toward more commercial styles of jazz. After moving to New York (1957), he debuted on record with John Coltrane.
Albert Heath was with J.J. Johnson's group (1958-1960) and the Jazztet (1960-1961), worked with the trios of Cedar Walton and Bobby Timmons in 1961, and recorded many records as a sideman for Riverside during that era. He lived in Europe in 1965-1968 (working frequently with Kenny Drew, Dexter Gordon, and backing touring Americans), and, after returning to the U.S., he played regularly with Herbie Hancock's sextet (1968-1969) and Yusef Lateef (1970-1974).
After an additional year in Europe, he joined the Heath Brothers band (1975-1978) and then settled in Los Angeles, where Tootie Heath continues freelancing, recording with the Riverside Reunion Band.
This evening's performance by the Richard Sears Trio with Tootie Heath is made possible in part by a commission by the Los Angeles Jazz Society.
ICONS AMONG US: JAZZ IN THE PRESENT TENSE •
Chapter 2 (5:45pm)
KNEEBODY (6:15pm)
Adam Benjamin (keyboards, electronics)
Ben Wendel (woodwinds)
Kaveh Rastegar (electric bass)
Nate Wood (drums)
Shane Endsley (trumpet)
“Cohesion is the truest constant in the music of Kneebody, a band that inhabits the borderland abutted by post-bop, indie-rock and hip-hop, without seeming to give much thought to the borders” NY Times, 2010
By combining sophisticated compositions and virtuosic improvising, the Grammy nominated group Kneebody has created a diverse, loyal fan base in the United States and Europe. Founded in 2001, Kneebody has built upon an impressive array of individual resumes and conservatory training to create a truly singular voice within the instrumental world.
In 2005 Kneebody released their debut album “Kneebody” on Dave Douglas’ Greenleaf Music Label. In 2007 they followed up with “Low Electrical Worker” on the Colortone Label. A collection of 13 original songs, “Low Electrical Worker” was hailed by saxophonist Joshua Redman as one of his “favorite albums of 2007”. In the spring of 2009, Kneebody and vocalist Theo Bleckmann released “12 Songs of Charles Ives” on the Winter & Winter label and received a Grammy nomination in the “classical crossover” category and In 2010 they released their third studio album, “You Can Have Your Moment,” also on the Winter & Winter label.
Kneebody is releasing "The Line", their first release on Concord Records, in September 2013.
YOSVANY TERRY QUINTET (7:30pm)
Yosvany Terry (saxophones+chekere)
Michael Rodriguez (trumpet)
Osmany Paredes (piano)
Yunior Terry (bass)
Ludwig Afonso (drums)
Born in Cuba, Yosvany Terry received his earliest musical training from his father, Eladio Don Pancho Terry, violinist and Cuba’sleading player of the Chekere. His father was also known as the founder and director of the Orquesta Maravillas de Florida, one of Cuba's most important charanga bands. Mr. Terry went on to receive his classical music training and graduated from both the prestigious National School of Art (ENA) and Amadeo Roldan Conservatory. While in Cuba, Yosvany was known for his musical innovation performing with the likes of legends, such as Chucho Valdez, Silvio Rogriguez, Fito Paez, and Cubanismo, as well as forming the influential group, Columna B. Their work represented the new voice of young Cuban jazz players. Columna B became this limitless work-shop, where everything could be tried and experimented with. We learned how to polish and develop our craft in a very special and intuitive sense, comments Terry. Columna toured throughout the US and Europe, and in 1998 premiered their Inroads Commissioned-piece by Arts International (through the Ford Foundation) at Stanford Jazz Festival.
Yosvany came to New York in 1999 and was immediately recognized as a spectacular talent in the Jazz scene, playing with Roy Hargrove, Steve Coleman, Eddie Palmieri, Dave Douglass, Jeff Tain Watts, Horacio El Negro Hernandez, and bassist Avishai Cohen. My move to New York represented an incredible time of growth as a musician, the move gave me access to so much information, and the opportunity to meet and work with talented musicians from all over the world. Always a student, Mr. Terry has absorbed and incorporated American jazz traditions with his own Afro-Cuban roots to produce compositions and solo work that flow from the rhythmic and hard driving avant-garde to sweet sounding lyricism. His voice and style are unique and complex, and with his new Quintet he has married Cuban and American musical traditions to create a new and exciting sound.
Mr. Terry’s latest production, Metamorphosis, represents the investigative work he’s being doing since arriving in New York. Yosvany adds, The sound that I was trying to acheive in this recording is made up of all the musical influences that I’ve experienced since the beginning of my studies in Cuba, combined with my musical growth in New York during the past five years. The compositions on this record reflect portraits and experiences of life in Havana and New York, while at the same time recreate the stamp of many other cities Yosvany has passed through, touring as a musician. Inevitably one learns from what one comes into contact with--a concert, book, film, landscape, painting, hanging out late at night, etc. It's for this reason that the title couldn’t be more descriptive of all these sensations: Metamorphosis," concludes Mr. Terry.
GREG OSBY GROUP feat. ANAT COHEN (8:45pm)
Greg Osby (saxophones)
Anat Cohen (clarinet)
Billy Childs (piano)
Eric Rivas (bass)
Saxophonist, composer, producer and educator Greg Osby has made an indelible mark on contemporary jazz as a leader of his own ensembles and as a guest artist with other acclaimed jazz groups for the past 20 years. Highly regarded for his insightful and innovative approach to composition and performance, Osby is a shining beacon among the current generation of jazz musicians. He has earned numerous awards and critical acclaim for his recorded works and passionate live performances.
Born and reared in St. Louis, Greg Osby began his professional music career in 1975, after three years of private studies on clarinet, flute and alto saxophone. Coming from a vibrant and musical city, Osby showed an early interest in the performing arts and spent his years in secondary school with a heavy involvement in Blues and Jazz groups. In 1978 Osby furthered his musical education at Howard University (Washington, D.C.) where he majored in Jazz Studies. He continued his studies at the Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) from 1980 to 1983. Upon relocating to New York in early 1983, Osby quickly established himself as a notable and in demand sideman for artists as varied as Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Jack DeJohnette, Andrew Hill, Muhal Richard Abrams, Jim Hall and Jaki Byard as well as with many ethnic and new music ensembles in the New York area.
In 1985 Osby was invited to to join Jack DeJohnette's innovative group, "Special Edition". It was as a member of this ensemble Osby was able to fine tune the more challenging aspects of his conception in an open ended, no holds barred musical situation. Says Osby, "My musical thinking for performance and composition advanced by light years as Jack was open to my input and was very encouraging in pushing me to to maintain a steady flow of experimentation. It marked a major turning point in my development as an artist." Osby signed with Blue Note Records in 1990 and recorded fifteen outstanding recordings for that label as a leader. In 2008, Osby launched his own label, "Inner Circle Music", which serves as a platform for many of today's brightest artists. From the pulse of the streets and the language of a generation, Osby has sketched numerous musical essays set to a contemporary score using the improvisational nature of Jazz as the connecting thread.
Clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds the world over with her expressive virtuosity and delightful stage presence. Reviewing Anat’s 2008 headlining set with her quartet at the North See Jazz Festival, DownBeat said: “Cohen not only proved to be a woodwind revelation of dark tones and delicious lyricism, but also a dynamic bandleader who danced and shouted out encouragement to her group – whooping it up when pianist Jason Lindner followed her clarinet trills on a Latin-flavored number.
Anat has been voted Clarinetist of the Year six years in a row by the Jazz Journalists Association, as well as 2012’s Multi-Reeds Player of the Year. That’s not to mention her topping of critics and readers polls in DownBeat magazine several years running. Anat has toured the world with her quartet, headlining at the Newport, Umbria, SF Jazz and North Sea jazz festivals as well as at such hallowed clubs as New York’s Village Vanguard.
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